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In 1945, William and Nora Clark purchased the lots at 623 Garfield. The lots were adjacent to lots that they already owned. The Clarks owned and made their home on the corner lots at Garfield and Pine, now 633 Garfield. According to several people who recall this house, William and Nora Clark had it relocated from a mine camp. This likely happened in 1945 or early 1946, before the Clarks sold the lots with the house. Unfortunately, the information as to which coal mine camp the house came from has been lost. However, local mines that had mine camps associated with them that were closing in the early to mid-1940s included the Monarch Mine and the Industrial Mine. In 1946, William and Nora Clark sold "Lot 6 et al" to Emmett and Naomi Stones and it became their home. (In 1953, William and Nora Clark sold an additional portion of a lot to Emmett and Naomi Stones that became part of the parcel at 623 Garfield. This was part of Lot 5 situated on the north side of 623 Garfield. Also in 1953, the Clarks sold the remainder of Lot 5 and additional lots to Charles and Isabelle Hudson, who had 629 Garfield constructed. The Hudson House at 629 Garfield is located in between the Clark House at 633 Garfield and the house in question at 623 Garfield.) Emmett Stones was born in 1914. In 1933, he married Naomi Pearson. They moved from Utah to Louisville in the 1940s. Emmett Stones worked in auto sales. He died in 1969. Naomi Stones, who was born in 1915, remarried to Pasquale "Halo" Scarpella in 1970 and they lived at 623 Garfield together. Halo Scarpella was born in Louisville in 1918 to an Italian family. He was a widower who, upon his marriage to Naomi Stones, moved into her house at 623 Garfield from his home elsewhere in Louisville. According to his obituary, he worked for the Burlington Northern Railroad and was head groundskeeper for the University of Colorado. In Louisville, he is remembered for his involvement in youth sports and for being instrumental in rebuilding Miners Field in Louisville, as described in the Fall 2003 issue of The Louisville Historian. According to her obituary, Naomi Scarpella worked as a housekeeper for the University of Colorado for fifteen years and was active in local organizations. She passed away in 1996. Halo Scarpella died in 2004. The following photo shows the house as it appeared on the 1948 Boulder County Assessor card. The card does not make mention of the house having been relocated. (Occasionally, a card will have a notation that a house was relocated, but there are believed to be many relocated buildings in Louisville for which there were no such notations.) However, the appearance of the house at that time is consistent with the appearance of typical mine camp houses in this area.